Friedrich (glassmaker)

Glassworks master Martin Friedrich the Younger with his family (around 1596).

The Friedrich are an important German-Bohemian family of glassmakers . From their origins at the end of the High Middle Ages in northern Bohemia to the branches that are widespread today, members of this family have always been active in the glass industry. This makes them probably the oldest known family of glassmakers in the world.

history

Late Middle Ages

In the 1990s, archaeologists discovered a glassworks in the Friedrichsdorf desert in northernmost Bohemia , which was already in operation around 1250. According to recent research, this place probably owes its name to the locator and first smelter Friedrich.

The first known documentary mention of a Friedrich glassworks dates from 1433.

Modern times

North Bohemia remained one of the most important spheres of activity of the glass artist Friedrich until 1689, when their famous works in Oberkreibitz (Horní Chřibská) passed into other hands. Oberkreibitz was the leading glassworks in the time of the Central European Renaissance glass . At that time, Martin Friedrich the Younger advanced to become the glass master of the Brandenburg Elector and the art-loving Emperor Rudolf II .

distribution

Like all glassmaker families, the Friedrich were also fond of hiking. They can therefore be found in almost all modern glass centers , especially in eastern Central Europe . Members of the Friedrich family are or were glassmakers in a total of ten European countries today. Your smelter dynasties in Silesia , the County of Glatz and Eastern Bohemia , in the area of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands , in Tyrol and Lower Styria wrote glass history.

Significant descendants

Squidward Haenke

Martin Friedrich the Younger (around 1550–1612), smelter in Oberkreibitz and glass master of Emperor Rudolf II and Elector Joachim Friedrich ( Brandenburg )
Thaddäus Haenke (1761–1816), explorer and polymath (including geographer, botanist, astronomer, chemist, musician and philosopher)
Friedrich Egermann (1777–1864), glass painter, glass technologist and entrepreneur

literature

Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich family of glassmakers. Fürth 2005 self-published. ISBN 3-00-015752-2

Web links

GenWiki: Friedrich family of glassmakers
The Friedrich - glassmakers in northern Bohemia
Glass-Maker Family Friedrich GenWiki in English

Individual evidence

↑ Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich glassmaker family , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2
↑ Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich glassmaker family , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2 , p. 286f. - Haenke's great-grandmother was Maria Elisabeth Friedrich (1659–1714), who comes from the Oberkreibitzer line of Friedrich.
^ Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich family of glassmakers , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2 , pp. 269, 287f., 294 - Egermann's grandmother was Anna Elisabeth Friedrich, born in 1727, which comes from the Oberkreibitzer line of Friedrich.

[1] Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich glassmaker family , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2

[2] Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich glassmaker family , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2 , p. 286f. - Haenke's great-grandmother was Maria Elisabeth Friedrich (1659–1714), who comes from the Oberkreibitzer line of Friedrich.

[3] Walter A. Friedrich: The roots of the North Bohemian glass industry and the Friedrich family of glassmakers , self-published, Fürth 2005, ISBN 3-00-015752-2 , pp. 269, 287f., 294 - Egermann's grandmother was Anna Elisabeth Friedrich, born in 1727, which comes from the Oberkreibitzer line of Friedrich.